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Letters from Hugh Hume-Campbell (Lord Marchmont) and Elizabeth Hume Campbell, to son Alexander Hume-Campbell [on same sheet]. Sent from London. 'I am glad to find that all your hours are actively filled up.'

7 Feb 1769

From: 1769 To: 1769

'The habit of employing your time is so essential to be acquired that none of it ought to be allowed to steal away from you.' Suggests that accuracy in French can be improved by translating from the French and then back into French. It would soon come to be a matter of amusement. Sends carriers receipt for parcel, which includes shoe buckles, the shorthand book for Lord Stanhope and a little treatise by Burroughs of the Royal Society. Elizabeth Hume Campbell writes that the parcel also includes tooth powder and brushes and a Court calendar. After the House of Commons had sat every day last week till between three and four in the morning, they expelled Mr Wilkes on Friday. He acknowledged himself the author of the libel, and talked of impeaching Lord Weymouth. General news of family and friends. Mrs Bailey is now so weak that she is taken out of bed once a fortnight; even her husband and children can no longer hear her speak. The Douglas cause is expected to come on again today.

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Hume-Campbell, Hugh,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander,
Hume-Campbell, Hugh (3rd Earl of Marchmont),
Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Stanhope,
Burroughs,
Wilkes, John,
Thynne, Thomas (3rd Viscount Weymouth),
Bailey,
Douglas, Archibald, 1st Duke of Douglas

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, French, EDUCATION, PARLIAMENT, libel, SHORTHAND, House of Commons, London